Nov 20, 2015

Robert Gehl reports the head of New York City’s Syrian community said ISIS terrorists have “absolutely” infiltrated the refugee pipeline into the United States and have joined “sleeper cells.”

“I believe the terrorists from Syria have been coming into the United States, not only in the past few years, but way before that,” Aarafat “Ralph” Succar of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, told the New York Post. Bay Ridge is home of the city’s largest enclave of Syrian immigrants. “I think they’re already at work,” he said.

Succar said corruption is so rampant in Syria that any body could obtain fake identification papers and make their way through the refugee process.

“You can go to the Syrian government today and say to them, ‘I need a piece of paper that says I’m Tony Caterpillar.’ And they give it to you,” he said.

“These are not forged documents. These are written out by a government employee who needs money, whose family has no food.”

Succar, 57, who immigrated to the United States when he was 10, also noted that “Third World countries, particularly places like Syria, do not have the network of information the United States has.”

“In Syria, there’s no such thing. So when they tell you that [the refugees] are vetted, are you out of your mind?” he said.

The men were detained late Tuesday after arriving from Costa Rica when authorities discovered their Greek passports had been stolen and doctored to replace the photos with pictures of the Syrians.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday that “a grand total of eight” Syrian refugees had settled in the city as part of an official State Department program, and City Hall later lowered that number to four, blaming the information mixup on the feds.